Waiting for reviewFinal eCandidate #3282 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

healesheals

A final e dropped: selfe → self, beene → been, hee → he.

Puritas changed it: 329 times in 198 works
Consistency: 98.8% (329 of 333)
Reach if approved: ~350 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: Agrees: heals
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 333 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (329 changes in 198 works, 98.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 329)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… them ſinnes, and then God forgives them; or call them Infirmities, and then he healesheals them: they are to us, all one benefit; in God, all one kindneſſe; that …
With rule
… them ſinnes, and then God forgives them; or call them Infirmities, and then he healesheals them: they are to us, all one benefit; in God, all one kindneſſe; that …
Sir Richard Baker · Meditations and Disquisitions Upon the Seven Consolatory Psalms of David · p. 184 · Open in the reader
Printed
… wealth. How much better were it to imitate Surgeons, than tormen tours? The ſurgian healesheals the ſore, the tormentour quelles the man.
With rule
… wealth. How much better were it to imitate Surgeons, than tormen tours? The ſurgian healesheals the ſore, the tormentour quelles the man.
Laurence Humphrey · The Nobles · Open in the reader
Printed
First we see more darkly and confusedly, and then more clearely, and he healesheals our lamenesse, not altogether by setting us on our feet at the first, but …
With rule
First we see more darkly and confusedly, and then more clearely, and he healesheals our lamenesse, not altogether by setting us on our feet at the first, but …
John Preston · The Doctrine of the Saints Infirmities · p. 143 · Open in the reader
Printed
… altogether unprofi…able to their soules whiles they resort to Playes. A plaister never healesheals, as long as there is an Arrowes head, or poyson in the wound: Stage …
With rule
… altogether unprofi…able to their soules whiles they resort to Playes. A plaister never healesheals, as long as there is an Arrowes head, or poyson in the wound: Stage …
William Prynne · The Players Scourge · Open in the reader
Printed
… blood-ſhedding he ſatisfied the wrath of God, juſtly offended with us. So he healesheals our ſoules that way, having undergone the anger and wrath of God, that his …
With rule
… blood-ſhedding he ſatisfied the wrath of God, juſtly offended with us. So he healesheals our ſoules that way, having undergone the anger and wrath of God, that his …
Richard Sibbes · The Returning Backslider · p. 142 · Open in the reader
Printed
Thirdly, because they haue receiued the Spirit of Sanctification, who daily healesheals and impaires naturall crookednesse and hypocrisie; and reneweth the minde, and the man to …
With rule
Thirdly, because they haue receiued the Spirit of Sanctification, who daily healesheals and impaires naturall crookednesse and hypocrisie; and reneweth the minde, and the man to …
Thomas Taylor · Davids Learning · p. 402 · Open in the reader
Printed
… never cures them. If it draw a skinne perchance on their scarres, notwithstanding it healesheals not within, Christ alone, who is the Light of the world, (the Way, the …
With rule
… never cures them. If it draw a skinne perchance on their scarres, notwithstanding it healesheals not within, Christ alone, who is the Light of the world, (the Way, the …
Samuel Ward · The Wonders of the Lodestone · p. 23 · Open in the reader
Printed
… of the Indian Phisitians, that they cure the wound by sucking the poison. Christ healesheals after a manner (I know not whither more) louing and strange; by taking the …
With rule
… of the Indian Phisitians, that they cure the wound by sucking the poison. Christ healesheals after a manner (I know not whither more) louing and strange; by taking the …
Thomas Adams · The Devils Banket Described · p. 312 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (4)

2 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

The Good Samaritan A57545

Printed
He HealesHeals upwards, p. 132.
With rule
He HealesHeals upwards, p. 132.
Nehemiah Rogers · The Good Samaritan · Open in the reader

Englands Parliamentary Chronicle A95892

Printed
… priſoners were Leivtenant Colonell Mohun, a Leivtenant Colonell of Horſe; Major Richard Heal, Baronet HealesHeals brother; Captain Maynard (who had formerly taken up Armes on our ſide) Captain Hill …
With rule
… priſoners were Leivtenant Colonell Mohun, a Leivtenant Colonell of Horſe; Major Richard Heal, Baronet HealesHeals brother; Captain Maynard (who had formerly taken up Armes on our ſide) Captain Hill …
John Vicars · Englands Parliamentary Chronicle · p. 112 · Open in the reader